The Civil Rights Movement
Explore The Civil Rights Movement on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- March on Washington / 'I Have a Dream' (1963)
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
- US Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Voting Rights Act 1965 (1965)
- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Montgomery bus boycott (1955)
- Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)
- The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963)
- Birmingham campaign (1963)
- Lynching of Emmett Till (1955)
- Freedom Rides (1961)
- King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Little Rock Nine integration (1957)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
- The murder of Medgar Evers (1963)
- Greensboro sit-ins (1960)
- Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
- Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing) (1968)
- Watts riots (1965)